哈雷的故事

作者：  姚文贵编著

出版社：吉林科学技术出版社,2012

简介：《世界五千年科技故事丛书》以世界五千年科学技术史为经，以各时代杰出的科技精英的科技创新活动作纬，勾画了世界科技发展的生动图景。作者着力于科学性与可读性相结合，思想性与趣味性相结合，历史性与时代性相结合，通过故事来讲述科学发现的真实历史条件和科学工作的艰苦性。 《彗星揭秘第一人：哈雷的故事》为其中一册，由姚文贵编著。 埃德蒙多·哈雷 Halley, Edmond（1656-1742）。英国天文学家、地理学家、数学家、气象学家和物理学家，曾任牛津大学几何学教授，第二任格林尼治天文台台长。他把牛顿定律应用到彗星运动上，并正确预言了那颗现被称为哈雷的彗星作回归运动的事实，他还发现了天狼星、南河三和大角这三颗星的自行，以及月球长期加速现象。

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Having decided that their research over the past decade, and piecemeal publication of it, has now filled out into a coherent whole, McDonald (U. of Illinois-Chicago), Edmond L. d'Ouville (Indiana U. Northwest) and Louie Nan Liu, now in the private sector, assemble their theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and some simulation experiments on the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity over the long run. Such tolls are often talked about, and sometimes actually used, to try to dissuade drivers from being at the same place at the same time as all the other drivers. The first section looks at high traffic flow, particularly the two models of continuous flow and bottleneck. The others cover commuter choice of tollways versus freeways, congestion pricing in the short run, and road capacity and pricing in the long run. The subject index is less than a page. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing offers the most extensive examination to date of the relationship between congestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This study breaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road capacity by including theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and simulation experiments that all pertain to the general topic reflected in the title. The book is organized into four sections: 1) highway traffic flow; 2) commuter choice of tollways versus freeways; 3) congestion pricing in the short run; and 4) road capacity and pricing in the long run. In particular, the first section on highway traffic flow examines the chief models and empirical studies of vehicular flow on urban highways. The second section of the book is a theoretical and empirical examination of the choice that commuters make between urban tollways and freeways. The third section is devoted to congestion pricing in the short run, the time period in which the urban highway facilities are taken as given. This section is the most important part of the book from the standpoint of public policy. The fourth and last section of the book considers road capacity and pricing in the long run, with the concluding chapter gathering the authors' main results in one place and making recommendations both for current policy and for future research.  

The Comet of Doom:The Story of Edmond Halley’s Comet

作者：  (英)安德鲁·唐金(Andrew Donkin)著;(英)吉利恩·亨特(Gillian Hunt)绘;叶舒白译

出版社：中国人民大学出版社,2004

简介：　　《命运的彗星：哈雷的故事》16世纪时，每个人都认为彗星会带来灾难，只有哈雷为这美丽的银色访客深深着迷，他不断地计算着每个彗星的轨道，终於发现了一个秘密——每76年，其中一个彗星就会造访地球一次呢！超级科学家系列图书是中国人民大学出版社2004年4月最新推出的中英对照系列读物。该系列图书共计八本，以优美的语言、大量生动的大幅面插图讲述了那些曾经深刻影响人类历史进程的科学家的鲜为人知的故事。新颖的版式设计、双色油墨烘托的图文内容无不体现该系列图书的精美。而每本书后的CD以地道的英语语音环境将读者带进了令人神往的年代，贴近历史的读者体认科学巨匠的同时亦能默默感受英语世界的魅力。

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简介：The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. — Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama,"...   more ?To a Young Stage Designer" and six other of Jones's "reflections."   ?less

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Poitras (finance, Simon Fraser U., Canada) compiles 11 essays that explore the origins of financial economics and its pioneers, going outside the traditional boundaries of the field. Beginning with the second half of the seventeenth century and ending with the early twentieth, contributors (who work in economics and other fields in Europe and North America) discuss the contributions of Jacob Bernoulli, Isaac Le Maire, Joseph de la Vega, Jan de Witt, Edmond Halley, Abraham de Moivre, Thomas Simpson, John Law, Emmanuel-Etienne Duvillard, Henri Lef猫vre, Jules Regnault, Louis Bachelier, and Vincenz Bronzin. Their theories and philosophies about trading in common stocks, valuation models for pricing life annuities, financial markets, and investments, for example, are described. Annotation 漏2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介：100 Writing Remedies is the only workbook/reference that shows students how to debug faulty writing and improve their communication skills. With it, your students can benefit from the same professional instruction other writers receive when attending seminars by Edmond H. Weiss. Writing must never be as volatile as speech--because the function o...   more 籪 writing is to permit communication across time and space.--from the Introduction   ?less

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简介：Charlotte Mew - Mary Ursula Bethell - Anna Wickham - Elinor Wylie - Frances Cornford - Hilda Doolittle - Elizabeth Daryush - Marianne Moore - Edith Sitwell - Edna St. Vincent Millay - Sylvia Townsend Warner - Louise Bogan - Ruth Pitter - Frances Bellerby - Stevie Smith - Lorine Niedecker - Robin Hyde - E.J. Scovell - Elizabeth Bishop - Josephine Miles - Muriel Rukeyser - Judith Wright - Gwendolyn Brooks - P.K. Page - Margaret Avison - Elma Mitchell - May Swenson - Amy Clampitt - Rosemary Dobson - Barbara Guest - Gwen Harwood - Denise Levertov - Elizabeth Bartlett - Patricia Beer - Jane Cooper - Lauris Edmond - Maxine Kumin - Elizabeth Jennings - Anne Szumigalski - Molly Holden - Connie Bensley - Freda Downie - U.A. Fanthorpe - Adrienne Rich - Elaine Feinstein - Jenny Joseph - Sylvia Plath - Anne Stevenson - Fleur Adcock - Jean Valentine - June Jordan - Judith Rodriguez - GIllian Clarke - Margaret Atwood - Gwendolyn MacEwen - Eilean Ni Chuilleanain - Tess Gallagher - Louise Gluck - Sandra McPherson - Ellen Bryant Voigt - Carol Rumens - Eavan Boland - Wendy Cope - Selima Hill.

T25 CUBISM 立体主义

作者：  Anne Gantefuhrer-Trier　著

出版社：人民出版社 2009-10-1

简介：　　As you'll find out in this guide to the fundamentals ofcubism, there is more to the genre than its most famous proponent.Cubism -- often identified by flattened, geometric shapes,overlapping, simplified forms and fragmented spatial planes -- wasquite possibly the most influential movement in 20th-century art.Featured artists: Pablo Picasso, Edmond Fortier, Paul Cezanne,George Braque, Henri Le Fauconnier, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Leger,Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, Henri Laurens, Salvador Dali, Brassao,Robert Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon... TASCHEN's Basic Artmovement and genre series: includes a detailed introduction withapproximately 30 photographs, and a timeline of the most importantevents (political, cultural, scientific, sporting, etc.) that tookplace during the time period. The body of the book contains aselection of the most important works of the epoch; each ispresented on a 2-page spread with a full page image and, on thefacing page, a description/interpretation.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The author/editor has produced two stand-alone or companion volumes. Only one third of the original material remains. New Markets and Products begins with two chapters on emerging markets. The book then goes on to cover markets and products of increasing complexity: standard equity and interest rate derivatives, exotic options, swap (and swaptions), volatility trading and finally credit derivatives. The contributors are all acknowledged experts in their fields: Michael Howell, Mark Fox, Ian King, Chris Rogers, Andrew Street, Riccardo Rebonato, Edmond Levy, Bryan Thomas, Vincent Lacoste, Desmond Fitzgerald and Blythe Masters. New Markets and Products will be an essential reference tool for risk managers, institutional investors, fund managers, bankers, corporate treasurers and financial consultants. "In this volume Carol Alexander has gathered together ten articles that are concerned with important recent developments in financial markets. Two of the articles are concerned with emerging markets. They explore the reasons for their growth and the nature of the investment opportunities available. The remaining eight articles are concerned with derivatives. There are chapters on equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, exotic options, volatility trading, and credit derivatives. The final chapter on credit derivatives is particularly timely. This market is in the process of transforming the way banks manage credit risk. I have seen no other discussion of the market as comprehensive and useful as that provided by Blythe Masters. Market participants and students alike will find much useful and thought-provoking information in this volume." - John Hull, August 1998  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters who helped shape it. Begins with the founding of Oxford and the establishment of the medieval curriculum, and tells how the Black Death, the Newtonian revolution, and the Civil War all influenced the development of Oxford mathematics. Profiles significant figures and their work, and ends with reminiscences of a 20th-century mathematician. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. Fauvel is senior lecturer in mathematics at The Open University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For 800 years mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This highly readable and beautifully illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters who helped to shape it. The story begins with the founding of the university of Oxford and the establishing of the medieval curriculum, in which mathematics had an important role. The Black Death, the advent of printing, the founding of the university of Cambridge, and the Newtonian revolution all had a great influence on the later development of mathematics at Oxford. So too did many well-known figures: Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Benjamin Jowett, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, G. H. Hardy, to name but a few. Later chapters bring us to the twentieth century, and the book ends with some entertaining reminiscences by Sir Michael Atiyah of the thirty years he spent as an Oxford mathematician.  

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简介："The architecture of Edmond and Corrigan is the appropriate self-defining aesthetic alternative to the Club of Europe." This is how French critic Pierre Restany describes the Australian architectural practice of Maggie Edmond and Peter Corrigan. For the past twenty years, the work of Edmond and Corrigan in architecture and theatre has drawn intense reaction and interest. Their work is a search for the means to express ideas about life in Australia through the medium of built form. The buildings that have been designed by them are discussed within the context of Australian and international architecture. Offering a sustained critique that is rare in Australian architecture, Conrad Hamann has started to redress the balance in this lively, original and well-informed analysis.

Dramatic imagination:reflections and speculations on the art of theatre

作者：  罗勃·埃德蒙·琼斯(Robert Edmond Jones)著;王世信译

出版社：原点出版,2009

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Hesiod’s Anvil赫西奥德之砧

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This book is about how poets, philosophers, storytellers, and scientists have described motion, beginning with Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, who imagined that the expanse of heaven and the depth of hell was the distance that an anvil falls in nine days. This book is aimed at students who have finished a year-long course in calculus, but it can be used as a supplemental text in calculus II, vector calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and modeling. It blends with equal voice romantic whimsy and derived equations, and anyone interested in mathematics will find new and surprising ideas about motion and the people who thought about it. Some of the things readers will learn is that Dante's implicit model of the earth implies a black hole at its core; that Edmond Halley championed a hollow earth; and that Da Vinci knew that the acceleration due to the earth's gravity was a constant. There are chapters modeling Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells' imaginative flights to the moon and back, the former novelist using a great cannon and the latter using a gravity-shielding material. The book analyses Edgar Alan Poe's descending pendulum; H. G. Wells' submersible falling and rising in the Marianas Trench; a train rolling along a tunnel through a rotating earth; and a pebble falling down a hole without resistance. It compares trajectories of balls thrown on the Little Prince's asteroid and on Arthur C. Clarke's rotating space station, and it solves an old problem that was perhaps inspired by one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The penultimate chapter is a story, based upon the Mayans, that loosely ties together the ideas about falling and spinning motion discussed in the book. Nearly all the chapters have exercises, some straightforward and some open ended.